Sheena McKenzie

Mark Storor's latest production The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut and Other Stories premieres at the Roundhouse next Tuesday April 26. This weeks reporter Sheena McKenzie interviewed the director about his influences, teenagehood and working with 11 young artists.

I'm not the first adult to say it and I won't be the last: you couldn't pay me to be a teenager again.

When The Knot of the Heart premiered at the Almeida Theatre in Islington last month it was reportedly so harrowing that some members of the audience were forced to walk out, with one woman even fainting.

In the same week the Government swings its axe over our public libraries, a unique London festival will be celebrating those very spaces with a series of intimate self-generating performances.